Jerred Shepherd

Jerred Shepherd is a software engineer who currently works at RStudio. Jerred has previously worked at Amazon Web Services (AWS) from July 2019 to August 2021, where they were a software development engineer.

Shepherd is responsible for designing, implementing, testing, and deploying the State Manager resource groups feature, which added support for resource group targets to AWS Systems Manager's desired state configuration service. Jerred has also developed several productivity tools for their team, which has led to significant time savings when developing and deploying code. These tools include a notification service for CI/CD events, a service operations report generator, and an infrastructure CLI toolkit.

In addition to their work on productivity tools, Shepherd also mentored an intern during their 12-week internship. Jerred helped the intern with their onboarding, design, and the development of their project, which was ultimately deployed to production.

Shepherd has also implemented front-end views for a new AWS service using React and TypeScript. Jerred has also optimized the service fleet by identifying the ideal server hardware configuration for their team's software stack, which led to a 66% reduction in server cost. In addition, they have improved automated testing by identifying gaps in automated testing and writing a document detailing how our service could be better tested to reduce defects and prevent performance regressions. Jerred has also implemented continuous testing and improved integration test infrastructure.

Finally, Shepherd has performed a major refactor on several infrastructure-as-code software packages, which has greatly reduced duplicated code, defects, and cut the time to build or update our service's infrastructure stack by

Jerred Shepherd's educational career includes a Bachelor of Science in Software Development from Harding University.

Their manager is Ferit Albukrek, VP, Engineering. Jerred Shepherd works with Elliot Murphy - Senior Director of Engineering, Mel Gregory - Software Engineer, and Tim Talbot - Software Engineer.